Thread: NYT: Big screen Kindle could arrive this week
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Old 05-05-2009, 03:21 PM   #101
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Originally Posted by tesseract420 View Post
Hmmm. Is a screen that is roughly the size of a half sheet of paper (European specs) really news? It's an improvement over the Sony Reader, perhaps, but not by much.
I believe it is such a big improvement that it is difficult to explain but I am going to try...
Standard PDF in landscape mode and zoomed in with zero margins looks like a printed page on iLiad iRex 8" screen when reading half page at a time. Now we are talking 9.7" vs. 8"....new benchmark.
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